An initiative of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
This is the third course-year that the students of 2nd ESO of our High School INS Lo Pla D’Urgell collaborate with the project ‘Out of Eden’.
This project is a free online learning program for youth around the world. It is a very specific virtual learning community of the Zero Project (University of Harvard), designed to accompany Paul Salopek (journalist of National Geographic) in his Out of Eden Walk project. Paul Salopek ‘s 21,000-mile odyssey is a decade-long experiment in slow journalism. He is walking the pathways of the first humans who migrated out of Africa in the Stone Age and made the Earth ours.
Students in classrooms around the world are grouped into small and diverse learning groups to jointly undertake a “learning trip.” They complete weekly activities, post their responses, and read and respond to the messages of others. There are two trips or journeys which consist of 6 didactic units each, so they do 12 didactic units. These are called ‘footsteps’, imitating Paul Salopek’s journey. Our students have already made very nice and good footsteps and have shared ideas and comments with students around the world, such as, USA, Italy, Mexico, Singapore, India, Argentina and Greece.
Here are some of the students’ comments after finishing the two journeys:
‘I have been able to spend time with my neighbours to ask them things to do task 4 of journey 1’
Aya Guenfoudi (2n A)
‘From this project I will remember when we had to go out and take photos in the street for our tasks, when I had to do a recipe, when we went out to the street and talk of the past of the people and when we had to explain the history of the things.’
Núria Azzi (2n B)
‘I’ve learned many things: that everyone likes to do something different and that everyone has different hobbies, that there are a lot of countries and religions around the world, how to search for information to do tasks, more things about me, and how people think in other countries.’
Anna Mulet (2n C)
‘It is a great way to do fun tasks and learn English.’
Jordi Juanmartí (2n D)
‘In this project I enjoyed knowing more things about what my neighbourhood was like many years before I was born. Also, learning a lot of things about my family history and knowing the secrets of the family.
Oriol Roig (2n E)
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